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The prosecution of a think tank analyst who played a major role in the creation of a discredited dossier about former President Donald Trump flows from a special counsel investigation that was born of political retribution and assumed guilt from the start, defense lawyers argued Monday.

They didn't want to find out the truth, they wanted to push the lie.

Fbi paid christopher steele one millions dollars to corroborate allegations, attempt to, which he coin, in his dossier against former president donald trump. this comes as jury deliberations are set to begin tomorrow ongoing in the case of russian national igor danchenko, who is charged with lying to the fbi over his role as steeles dossier source. he was not only one that lied. it was charles dolan who has ties to the clintons. we have former acting attorney general matthew whitaker, before we ...

Special counsel John Durham, in what is likely the final trial of his probe into the origins of the FBI's Trump-Russia collusion investigation, let the bureau off the hook for misconduct, casting it as a hapless victim of a dishonest Russian analyst named Igor Danchenko.

The involvement of the democrats and the clinton campaign. if anyone had ties to russia, it was, it was them. so do they go in and investigate, investigate can the chen coe? no. danchenko? no, what mueller does is he buries it. so essentially whats happened here is durham has oddly been prosecuting the doj and the fbi at the same time that hes prosecuting danchenko. maria: yeah. >> now, look, i think this is a problem because im not sure -- why is durham not bringing criminal conspiracy charges?...

They have just moved on like it was something that had never happened. they want to ignore it. they dont want to go back in the time where they were trying to get trump, trying to discredit him. trying to prevent him, first prevent him from being president. then ultimately trying to prevent him from being successful as president. pete: yes. >> the left is never good at introspection after the fact. pete: especially caught red-handed with some of their own players caught on the field. here are so...

News Analysis While special counsel John Durham’s prosecution of Steele dossier source Igor Danchenko appears to be headed ...

Danchenko and four counts to the fbi can come after that. alexandria hoff. alex: originally 5 counts but one tossed out by the judge on friday over technicality and that was late blow to special counsel john durham who has been working on the case for 3 years. he had alleged that igor danchenko lied to the fbi speaking about the steele dossier which was aimed at destroying then candidate donald trump. since the exchange was by e-mail and not verbal, the charge was too weak and the judge agreed. ...

And the democratic national committee. he had been a longtime democratic operative working in washington, d.c., and he was the secret source, as you may recall, that the fbi led us to believe that something could happen, you know, people could die. well, when they find out that danchenko is, in fact, lying and not providing information, do they raid his house like they did at mar-a-lago and go through his, you know, underwear drawer and pull out documents of danchenko? no. what do they do? they ...